Good 1940.

Good 1940 of art deco numerals.

 

We are expected to comprehend immediately and subconsciously that "1528" is a street address and "1940" is a year. Is that expectation fair?

 

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In downtown Rock Island, Illinois, on May 20th, 2023, at Rock Island City Hall (built 1940, surfaced in Bedford limestone, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Rock Island Historic District, 100004433 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of 3rd Avenue and 16th Street.

 

Bedford limestone, a/k/a Indiana limestone, is known geologically as the Salem Limestone formation of the Sanders group, formed during the Viséan age of the Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era, ~346.7 to ~330.9 million years ago.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Rock Island (7014353)

• Rock Island (county) (2000528)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• Art Deco (300021426)

• Carboniferous (300391469)

• city halls (300122210)

• engraving (action) (300053829)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• Indiana limestone (300011321)

• Paleozoic (300391254)

 

Wikidata items:

• 20 May 2023 (Q69306805)

• 1528 (Q12681474)

• 1940 in architecture (Q2721175)

• 1940s in architecture (Q60996001)

• Art Deco architecture (Q12720942)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7268261)

• Downtown Rock Island Historic District (Q99842007)

• May 20 (Q2579)

• May 2023 (Q61312956)

• Mississippian (Q744718)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• Quad Cities (Q1660598)

• Salem Limestone (Q18353656)

• Sanders Group (Q119059527)

• Treaty of St. Louis (1804) (Q28433157)

• Treaty of St. Louis (1816) (Q28433158)

• Viséan (Q647290)

• Western Illinois (Q14925128)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• City halls—Illinois (sh2010006129)

• Historic districts—Illinois (sh94002875)

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